"Silence is an ocean. Speech is a..." - Quote by Rumi

“I am sunlight slicing the dark.”

“To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes.”

“People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.”

“Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.”

“Silence is only commendableIn a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible.”

“Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.”

“The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.”

“... I had a latent impression that there was something decidedly fine in Mr. Wopsle's elocution - not for old associations' sake, I am afraid, but because it was very slow, very dreary, very up-hill and down-hill, and very unlike any way in which any man in any natural circumstances of life or death ever expressed himself about anything.”

“Speech is better than silence; silence is better than speech.”